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Sometimes, though, this procrastination does wonders. Like bonzai tree gardening, or a Zen gravel garden. As someone who uses Gentoo, Xmonad, Zshell, and Emacs
by pookleblinky 17y ago
Sometimes, though, this procrastination does wonders. Like bonzai tree gardening, or a Zen gravel garden.
As someone who uses Gentoo, Xmonad, Zshell, and Emacs, there's more than enough config code to tweak than there are hours in the day. The happy result is that if I'm stumped, I always know I can pop open a buffer and hack something a bit.
Hell, the alternative to wasting your time in a fully hackable environment is wasting your time on the interwebs.
If you're going to procrastinate, you could do worse than by hacking .emacs. Like Runescape.
- silentbicycle 17y agoI don't think the problem is so much that it's procrastination, but it's procrastination that seems like work. Like people noodling around with their "productivity systems". Having the option to customize things is worthwhile (I use Emacs, dwm, and screen, and have accumulated a lot of settings for each), but it's a means to an end. When I'm hitting a dead end, I usually find it more helpful to get away from the computer entirely and go for a bike ride, work out, talk to someone, have some fruit, etc., and see the problem with a fresh mind later.